So principle number one is that industrial security, I should say, is national security. We have learned over the past five, the past six, frankly, the past 20 or 30 years, that If America doesn't have enough self-sufficiency in industry and manufacturing, our enemies are able to exploit it. and it makes our country much weaker. And sometimes it's not even because our enemies are exploiting it. Sometimes it's because a global pandemic breaks out. (18:26–18:41)
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